Come on people now THE YOUNGBLOODS
Jesse Colin You
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now.
BE FEARLESS ON WHAT SETS YOUR SOUL ON FIRE.
Build an object as though it were to last a thousand years & as if you were to die tomorrow. The Shakers via Thomas Moser.
Noam Chomsky has been silenced at 95 losing the ability to speak and write.
No one will place the truth in your mind; it is something you must discover for yourself.
The world is a mysterious & confusing place. If you are not willing to be confused, you become a mere replica of someone else’s mind.
If you want to control a people, create an imaginary enemy that appears more dangerous than you, then present yourself as their enemy.
There is a purpose behind distorting history to make it seem like only great men achieve significant things. It teaches people to believe they are powerless & must wait for a great man to act.
One of the clearest lessons of history: rights are not granted; they are taken by force.
To control people make them believe they are responsible for their own misery and present yourself as their savior.
The general population doesn’t know what’s happening & it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.
The West will one day regret its shallow ideas that alienate people from their true nature.
HOW IS IT WE HAVE SO MUCH INFORMATION BUT KNOW SO LITTLE?
Hypocrites: those who apply to others the standards they refuse to accept for themselves.
THIS CONSTANT LYING IS NOT AIMED
AT MAKING THE PEOPLE BELIEVE A LIE,
BUT AT ENSURING THAT NO ONE BELIEVES
ANYTHING ANYMORE.
A PEOPLE THAT CAN NO LONGER DISTINGUISH
BETWEEN TRUTH & LIES CANNOT DISTINGUISH
BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG.
AND SUCH A PEOPLE, DEPRIVED OF THE POWER
TO THINK AND JUDGE, IS, WITHOUT KNOWING
AND WILLING IT, COMPLETELY SUBJECTED
TO THE RULE OF LIES. WITH SUCH A PEOPLE,
YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT.
Hannah Arendt German historian & philosopher 1906-1975
To Dr. Kim McCully who saw the truth before the rest of us,
indeed before the rest of medicine & who would not be turned aside.
The freer I get — the higher I go.
The higher I go — the more I see.
The more I se — the less I know.
The less I know — the more I’m free.
Baba Ram Dass
Sometimes I’m looking at the world where we are taking so many steps back. I want to be part of the people who keep us moving forward. Amber Glenn
With standup you examine anything that’s different about you. You take a terrible experience & you get something out of it. You make people laugh. Phil Hanley
Cry, humanity, your song is done. blessed are the beasts that serve everyone. Blessed is the night that bleeds into day. Patti Smith
LOVE IS THE MEASURE OF LIFE;
ONLY SO FAR AS WE LOVE DO WE REALLY LIVE.
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life,
I should say books, friends & nature.
John Burroughs
ART IS TRUTH.
The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious.
Character is plot — casting is character.
WARREN BEATY
Art is to console those who are broken by life. Vincent Van Gogh
TO LAUGH IS TO LIVE PROFOUNDLY. Milan Kundera
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned & linguistically reinforced hallucination. Terence McKenna